Ryan O'Neal

Conflict-of-interest disclosure: I'm incapable of an impartial assessment of the "Town" in this book's title. I fell in love with Los Angeles when I moved here three years ago, and I wear my heart on my (year-round, short) sleeve. An unabashed devotee, I hike to the Hollywood sign, picnic at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery (where Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks and their fellow big-screen dreamboats lie); my home is a historic studio bungalow once occupied by Olivia de Havilland (or so it is said). To love "Our Town" today is to love the myths and the memories of its soft-focus yesterdays. As we Angelenos scurry from our Pilates classes to our rooftop bars...

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